BAMAKO, December 9, 2016 ─ Despite the dominant role that crop and livestock farming plays in Mali’s economy, the country has some of the highest rates of acute malnutrition and rural poverty in Afric...

China’s poorest province, Guizhou, stands land-locked in the southwest of the country with a population of 40 million. Roughly 40% of residents belong to ethnic minorities and 28% live below the natio...

DAKAR, Senegal, Dec. 9, 2016 – While East African tech entrepreneurs from countries such as Kenya and Rwanda may have captured the attention of the media and investors over the past decade, West and C...

Tunis, December 2, 2016 - A delegation of 50 parliamentarians from 10 MENA countries convened in Tunis on the occasion of the launch of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF’s regional cha...

Six years after its launch, the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) has evolved into a robust innovative community and expanded to 27 countries, where it is helping countries ex...

ENJIL DISTRICT, Herat Province – Ghulam Nabi, 48, holds the handle of a metal bucket with his calloused hands and fills it with wheat grains. He pours the grains into the mill’s feed chute, and the co...

Blog #1 - Striving, struggling and thriving in Nepal Lahjung Bhotia is from Hatiya, Sankhuwasabha, a remote mountainous district in Eastern Nepal. She and her husband rent land and grow black cardamom...

Trust. Efficiency. Accountability. These are the pillars of a strong, independent, and effective judicial system. For over a decade the World Bank has worked with the government of Romania to build an...

ENJIL DISTRICT, Herat Province – The farmer uses a shovel to direct water toward his farm, which is surrounded by farmlands and greenery except for the bare rock of the distant mountains. Nearby, a wo...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are, by definition, modest in size. But they play an outsized role in developing economies, where they account for about half of employment and the majority o...

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2016— Mali, specifically the country’s southern region, is among the largest mango producers in West Africa and among the fastest growing mango exporters in the world. In 2015...

With the Paris climate agreement in full force, countries around the world must now get down to the serious business of addressing climate change. Cities – responsible for two-thirds of the world’s gr...